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[May. 14th, 2008|09:36 pm] |
Yesterday I found a job in the classifieds, called them all on my own like a grown-up person, and scheduled an interview for tomorrow afternoon (to which my mother will drive me, har). Right now I'm making my resume.
Imagine! I'm seeking a job that actually requires a resume! I am moving up in the world.
But yes, it's some kind of customer service/receptionist/sales something job at a business publications place. I don't even know. But it's a real-person 9-5 weekdays job at which I can get anywhere from 30-40 hours a week, hoo-rah. I like that: daytime hours, no week-ends... I can dig it. It will make me feel more useful and less like I'm a complete waste of space and resources. I have about twenty-eight cents in my checking account (for once I am not using hyperbole - I literally have less than a dollar), and my best activities are sleeping, spilling tea on myself, and making faces at the cats. A normal-person job (and not soul-sucking retail or fast food) might make me feel slightly better about myself.
Of course, a job that centers on talking to people over the phone might also suck my soul. But I doubt it will make me mope and anguish and weep and turn into Insomniac Jane like Arby's did, so that's a plus.
Also I might get to see B. this Friday. Nothing is confirmed, and with my luck it won't go through, but it's a possibility. As I told him last night while we talked on the phone as I sat in a tree, I am crossing my fingers. (But if it falls through, I shan't crumble - I wasn't expecting to get to see him so soon anyway.)
La la la. I have to finish a resume. I'm so glad I did that work over winter break where I called prospective students and gave them info on the theatre department and tried to convince them to come to our school. I think that's kind of what this job I'm applying for is like. Go me!
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| And I won't have to stay here lonnnnggg... |
[May. 11th, 2008|10:34 pm] |
So I'm kind of getting into Sacred Harp music. Here's an excerpt from my paper journal in which I write about it:
Also, I've been getting into Sacred Harp music lately. During makeup class or while getting ready before shows, we usually play music in the costume shop. There was a pretty significant Queen phase for awhile - then we got into the Cold Mountain soundtrack. The first time I heard the Sacred Harp Singers at Liberty Church, my entire body responded. It's not even pretty, it's just... strong. Powerful.
I once tried to explain to Brian how sometimes I feel things so strongly that it's like I have the sea inside me. He couldn't understand how one could make such a comparison because while he loves the sea, it's a distinct entity to him - a woman, even - so he could never identify with it. I think there's something to be said about women being connected to water - and very much so to the sea - and I certainly have a deep personal connection with water - but those are different topics. The point is - in trying to explain this feeling I said it's like the tide, deep and pulling; when that didn't work I said it's like a hook in my belly that pulls relentlessly forward.
That's what Sacred Harp music is like. Something that hooks in and tugs. It's enthralling.
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Also, here is a poem that makes me go melty inside in a number of different ways. Brian introduced me to Theodore Roethke (in the loveliest of ways), and I am ever so glad he did.
THE SHY MAN
The full moon was shining upon the broad sea;
I sang to the one star that looked down at me;
I sang to the white horse that grazed on the quay,---
As I walked by the high sea-wall.
But my lips they,
My lips they,
Said never a word,
As I moped by the high sea-wall.
The curlew's slow night song came on the water.
That tremble of sweet notes set my heart astir,
As I walked beside her, the O'Connell's daughter,
I knew that I did love her.
But my lips they,
My lips they,
Said never a word,
As we walked by the high sea-wall.
The full moon has fallen, the night wind is down
And I lie here thinking in bleak Bofin town
I lie here and thinking, 'I am not alone.'
For here close beside me is O'Connell's daughter,
And my lips they, my lips they,
Say many a word,
As we embrace by the high sea-wall.
O! my lips they, my lips they,
Say many a word,
As we kiss by the high sea-wall.
Oh Teddy, you make my heart swoon. I'll probably be sharing more of him during the summer, so if you don't like this, don't worry - he isn't all sappy mushy lovey nonsense. (But I do like sappy mushy lovey nonsense when it also happens to be tasty verse. Or even when it isn't.)
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| I'm a wild bird, Shelby. Wild birds ain't got no nest. |
[May. 10th, 2008|05:33 pm] |
That is the worst line in all of The Spitfire Grill, which I otherwise quite enjoy, at least when Zackums' girlfriend is singing in it.
I'm back home and it's okay. I'm drinking yummy tea from a big pretty mug, it's cool and breezy, and kitties are all over the place. I have to sleep on the couch for another month, but I'm going to set up my white shelves - and some that Maureen brought home - in the living room and put things on them and make it like a real room instead of living out of my suitcase. Today I submitted an application for a job at a clothing store like a real semi-grown-up person, and in the next couple days I'll finish and submit my application for the baseball stadium, and I'm keeping an eye on the classified ads for something more hopeful. This summer I plan to gut my closet and give away a lot of things, find skirts and dresses at the thrift stores so I can stop wearing pants so darn much, rearrange the furniture in my room once I finally get to live in there again, keep Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide perpetually checked out of the library, and finally read The Spiderwick Chronicles instead of just drooling over the field guide. And I'm excited to make my own food again, and to have fresh fruits and vegetables more often... and to have a bathroom where I can close the door and be by myself and just have Rebecca-in-the-bathroom time. I know that within a couple weeks I'll miss Jessicle and Brian and Jeremy and Sara and Zackums and Dan and Mandy and all so so much that it will hurt, but right now I'm riding on beginnings and I'm doing all right. Plus we're trying to figure out a time where we can all go to Cleveland where half of us live and see one another this summer.
Also I need to watch Mirrormask.
But first, here are some pictures.
MC Hide-and-Seekers.
( +++ )
Also, I need a significant hair-trim and this upsets me, but it won't grow longer if I don't keep the ends healthy. Sigh. My hair is currently just barely shy of my waist, and I want it down to the small of my back again. Maybe eventually even to my hips. I like it better that way, and if I end up doing mostly Shakespeare and period/classic shows when I get out of school (which I am told is my best bet, and it's probably true), long hair is a plus, so I'm told, so it seems. Plus I just plain like it that way. Blah blah blah I am boring talking about hair. I'm going to go drink more tea.
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| May News |
[May. 7th, 2008|05:49 pm] |
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V-Gift for Charity
This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, so the LiveJournal team is offering users a chance to support the Depression and Bipolar Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of those suffering from mood disorders. Proceeds from purchases of the Emerging Sun v-gift during May will be donated to the DBSA, so feel free to buy one. Or, if you really want to rack up some good karma points, get a bunch!
And don't forget: Mother's Day is this Sunday. Be a dear and check out the v-gifts shop. Send something that'll make her smile.
L to R: Emerging Sun, #1 Mom, Gift Basket, Chocolates, A Dozen Red Roses
Brand-Spanking New, Contest-Winning Themes
We know how you salivate over the prospect of new themes, especially when they're designed by users with a unique handle on both form and function.
L to R: Shiny, River at Night, Live and Learn, Vector Drips.
( Winners of the HP 'What Do You Have to Say?' Theme Design Contest )
Advisory Board Nominations
We'd like to remind you that the nomination process for LiveJournal Advisory Board user-representatives has begun. If you think you're fit for the job, now's the time to nominate yourself! After all, you're the only who can do it. In two weeks, on the 22nd, the voting process will begin; we'll remind you about it again here.
If you're interested in keeping up with the nominations, watch ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) lj_election_en. We'll post the results and announce the winner by the end of the day on May 30th. The new user-representatives will be seated on June 1st. Further details can also be found in lj_2008. |
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| "But we do not have pancakes." |
[May. 5th, 2008|04:52 pm] |
Tired all the time. Got my Possession paper done.
Spent ten hours in the car yesterday because Mandy and Sara and I drove up to Pittsburgh to pick up Jessicle at the airport, but she had missed her flight and had to come on a later one. So we wandered the city a little and found the most wonderful chocolate shop and spice shop ever. Then we returned home, I took a shower, and B. and I drove back up to Pittsburgh to pick up Jessica for real this time. And there was squealing and hugging in the airport, then a long long sleepy ride home, then some shenanigans with folks, and I was just tired tired tired. A few of us sat in Sara's room, and I was talking in my Fabienne voice about how I wanted pancakes but we didn't have any; then B. turned on the television and a character kept going on about wanting pancakes. (Cue Twilight Zone music.) Then I fell asleep on Sara's couch.
Today is sunny and warm and lovely. I need a shower and a skirt, I think. And tonight sleep sleep sleep hard because tomorrow is juries and Greek & Roman final and the Willards. (Williards?)
Sigh.
My mood is not bad, by the way. I'm actually good. Just very, very tired.
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| Advisory Board Nominations Open |
[May. 5th, 2008|10:56 am] |
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Advisory Board Nominations Begin
This morning we are opening the nomination process for the user-representative positions on the LiveJournal Advisory Board. A full description of the process can be found here.
To get you started, here are the basic things you should know:
- You may only nominate yourself
- Each nominee will need 100 motions of support in order to be eligible to be a candidate
- We ask that you keep your comments on the nomination posts to "I support this nomination" or something to that effect; be kind to those who will need to count the "supports", please.
- Although the nominations and election poll will take place in lj_election_en, you do not need to watch the community in order to keep up with the election; we'll announce everything here as well.
Everyone here at LiveJournal is looking forward to this first-ever User-Representative election! We'd like to thank everyone who is participating. Some words from our current Advisory Board members:
danah boyd: “LiveJournal is filled with very passionate users. These users have helped shaped LJ's various communities over the last decade and it gives me great joy that LJ is recognizing and incorporating users' voices into the decision-making processes. Having user representatives from different parts of LJ on the Advisory Board will help make sure that the company is meeting the needs of its diverse constituents.”
Esther Dyson: "I'm sure we'll learn a lot from the process, and later on from the two users selected as well. Especially, I hope that the discussions before the voting will be more meaningful and more focused on policy than those in some offline campaigns."
Brad Fitzpatrick: "It's cool that SUP is getting users involved with the LiveJournal decision-making process. I look forward to seeing who the community elects and the results of our efforts working together."
Professor Lawrence Lessig: “The user elections will provide a critical check on LJ's process of maintaining a valuable and trustworthy environment for the LJ community. The mandate of the elections will give the user representatives pride of place among the members of the Advisory Board. Each of us will look to them to guide us in our judgment about how best to make LJ the community we all aspire that it will be. I look forward to welcoming the user representatives, and learning a great deal from them.”
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) chasethestars has also made some banners for you to use, if you'd like to show your support for the candidate of your choice!
( Banners + code for you to use! ) |
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